Lastest kprobes64 patch

David Long dave.long@linaro.org
Thu Aug 4 13:07:00 GMT 2016


On 08/04/2016 01:03 AM, Pratyush Anand wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> On 03/08/2016:04:00:33 PM, David Long wrote:
>> In repsonse to the prolonged discussion on issues with use of a duplicated
>> stack for jprobes on arm64 I have created the requested change of removing
>> the stack duplication code altogether.  I don't know how this affects
>> systemtap.  It would also be good to have a better idea of how much
>> systemtap makes use of jprobes.
>>
>> The new additional patch, plus Catalin's accumulated patches since
>> kprobes64-v15, are now in my (recreated) kprobes64-v16 branch.  If someone
>> has time to exercise this it I would be grateful.
>
> Your all patches except "arm64: Remove stack duplicating code from jprobes" are
> already in torvalds/linux.git:master now.
>
> ~Pratyush
>

Thanks for that info, I was expecting it to be held up for removal of 
the jprobes stack duplicating code.

Note that I plan to send out a separate patch for the improvement to the 
code searching for atomic sequences.  I didn't think it was wise or 
necessary to try and bundle that into the initial patch at the point it 
was at.

-dl



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